Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, Hamdard University, Karachi, Pakistan
Online published on 22 April, 2015.
Education is recognized by UNESCO as a ‘fundamental human right’, the education especially higher education is beneficial for individual and as well as for the whole society. Female required education as men. But in our country female are behind from men in field of education and especially in our middle class this situation is highlighted. The specific purpose of this study was to find out the female priorities about higher education in middle class families of backward area in Karachi. In these areas female has shown interest toward higher education. Higher education pays an important role for the development of these areas, and educated females are basic necessity for this middle class because educated female allocated better resources of house hold and higher education opens the door for better paid jobs also for females. In order to explore how we can identify the priorities about higher education the study was conducted co related with situation of the area like LandhiKorangi the researcher has chosen the survey research method and questionnaire was used for collection of data from the respondent. The findings of research shows that the female students are interested to obtaining higher education but their parents don't encourage them for obtaining the higher education, due to their financial and social conditions. Most of the parents don't realize the importance of education but the finding also shows that the female students are groomed up and education has developed their skills in new ways. Female are not limited to their traditional female oriented fields, they move their priorities and now steeping to the new field of technology and science and also in social science like mass communication, international relation, psychology, and in the field of science environmental science, bio technology, micro biology etc. This trend is visible in our whole society
Priorities, Higher Secondary Student, Middle Class, Higher Education